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Human chromosome 3 is sequenced

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created Apr 27, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The sequencing of human chromosome 3 at Baylor College represents the final stage of a multi-year project to sequence the human genome.


Researchers discover new genes that fuse in cancer

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created Jan 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Using new technologies that make it easier to sequence the human genome, researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a series of genes that become fused when their chromosomes trade ...


454 Life Sciences and Baylor College of Medicine complete sequencing of DNA pioneer

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created Jun 01, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

[B]The genome of James Watson is the first to be sequenced for less than $1M[/B] 454 Life Sciences Corporation, in collaboration with scientists at the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, announced tod ...


Horse genome sequence draft is issued

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created Feb 07, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S.-led Horse Genome Sequencing Project has issued its first draft, making it available to biomedical and veterinary scientists around the world.


Dutch scientists first to sequence female DNA

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created May 26, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Geneticists of Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) are the first to determine the DNA sequence of a woman. She is also the first European whose DNA sequence has been determined. This has been announced by the researchers ...


Babies, Bacteria and Breast Milk: Genome Sequence Reveals Evolutionary Alliance

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created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As every parent discovers, human babies are bubbling, burping processing plants that take in milk, extract compounds useful for rapid growth and development, and unceremoniously excrete the byproducts. Those ...


Prenatal molecular diagnosis for tuberous sclerosis complex

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created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Geneticists from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have reported the world's first series of cases of prenatal diagnosis for women at risk of having a child with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Earlier, the Center ...


Complete Genomics publishes in Science on low-cost sequencing of 3 human genomes

Complete Genomics reports low-cost sequencing of 3 human genomes

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Complete Genomics, a third-generation human genome sequencing company, today announced publication of a report in the journal Science describing its proprietary DNA sequencing platform, including analysis of seq ...


Two new DNA sequencing methods unveiled

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created Aug 09, 2005 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Two newly developed methods of decoding DNA are expected to be substantially quicker and cheaper than the existing method.


'Personalized' genome sequencing reveals coding error in gene for inherited pancreatic cancer

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created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have used "personalized genome" sequencing on an individual with a hereditary form of pancreatic cancer to locate a ...


Parsing the genome of a deadly brain tumor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 06, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The most comprehensive to-date genomic analysis of a cancer – the deadly brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme – shows previously unrecognized changes in genes and provides an overall view of the missteps in the pathways that ...


Yale's scan of Turkish infant's genome yields a surprise diagnosis

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a dramatic illustration of the power of emerging genetic technologies, Yale University researchers have reported making a clinical diagnosis for the first time using comprehensive DNA sequencing of all ...


Biologists sequenced red flour beetle genome

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created Mar 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Most of us hate to find the red flour beetle living happily in the flour sack in our pantries. But for several scientists at Kansas State University, and many others throughout the world, this pest of stored grain and grain ...


Duckweed Collection

Duckweed genome sequencing has global implications

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created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Three plant biologists at Rutgers' Waksman Institute of Microbiology are obsessed with duckweed, a tiny aquatic plant with an unassuming name. Now they have convinced the federal government to focus its attention ...


Causative gene of a rare disorder discovered by sequencing only protein-coding regions of genome

For the first time, scientists discover causative gene of a rare disorder by exome sequencing

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UW researchers have successfully used a method called exome sequencing to quickly discover a previously unknown gene responsible for a rare disorder. The finding demonstrates the usefulness ...